Strike Takes Toll of Life
Pitched Battles In U.S. TEXTILE WALK-OUT RAPIDLY SPREADING United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Thursday, 8 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Rioting and death punctuated the textile strike to-day-, even as capital and labour prepared to lay their grievances before a board of the President's choosing. Two men were killed iu a pitched battle at Trion (Georgia) in which 15 or more are reported to have been wounded. Three were shot at Augusta (Georgia), one critically, and at Greenville, five strikers, four or them women, were wounded in a club-swinging melee at the mill gates. "The strike continues to roll on ahead,’’ said Mr. Francis Gorman, chairman of the textile strike committee. "A fresh 100,000 have been added as mill after mill has been closed. We have fully 540,000 on strike.’’ Mr. Gorman’s figures are at variance with an Associated Press survey, which indicated 325,000 striking, with the walk-out rapidly spreading.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 214, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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